Unpopularity of Elba

[Luke Davis]

Ann

I have personally used Linux to access Windows FTP servers.  It works
fine, contrary to your statements below.  Most of the rest of your message
is correct, but when something talks FTP over TCP/IP, it talks FTP.

Am I totally missing the boat here?

Luke

On Sat, 3 May 2003, Ann Parsons wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Actually Saqib, if you wanted to really understand the Elba and how it
> works on a network, think of it as a Linux box, then you will
> understand.  A linux box, unless you are using Samba, can not exchange
> files with a Windows one using FTP.  On the other hand, the Windows
> box can FTP to the Linux box with no trouble.  Why, because the Linux
> box understands and can read communication From Windows to it.
> Windows, on the other hand, can not read communication via FTP from a
> Linux box.  Windows doesn't recognize Linux at all!  If, for example,
> you have a Linux and Windows computer, i.e. a dual boot system, you
> can mount the Windows partition/disk on the Linux side no trouble.
> You can come and go within the windows environment, see all the files,
> read them, and write to them, even.  On the other hand, Windows is
> incapable of recognizing a linux partition.  As far as Billy-Boy is
> concerned, his OS is egocentric and will remain so.  That is why your
> Elba can not talk to your PC.  It isn't that the Elba is illiterate or
> not bilingual, it's that your PC is!  Your PC, unless it is a Linux
> box, is, as I have said, egocentric, monolingual, and parochial.  It
> don't wanna talk to nobody who's different or who speaks funny or who
> dresses funny or who uses a slash instead of a backslash.  I mean
> *really* that is the end of uncooth, according to the high society of
> Windowsdom.  Actually, if it ain careful, it's going to trip over its
> feet if it keeps its nose in the air like that, Saqib! It's *not* the
> Elba's fault!
>
> On the other hand, iffin you want to talk to a Linux box with it, you
> can talk either direction.  Both Linux boxes can talk to each other
> just peachy keen and wonderful
>
> Now I admit that five pounds is rather heavy, but shoot for the
> convenience... Only thing it lacks and not for long, is GPS.
>
> Ann P.
>
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